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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Running the race...

I was out for another jog. A beautiful afternoon with a slight breeze and HOT sun. I had been running for a solid 20 minutes and I was becoming weary. I remember as I ran by the quiet pond, I needed help. I was not going to finish in my strength alone. The sun was beating down on me and I could feel the sweat dripping down my back. All I wanted to do was stop and lay in the grass. It was too hard to continue. It was too hard and I was not capable.

I cried out to God - help me - I cannot do this. But I don't want to give up like I always do when things get tough, that's my nature - run (well in this case not run), quit.

And in that moment, God met me and we finished together. It was hard but the victory was sweet. We had done it together.

I don't like tough days.

I don't like pain.

I don't like to wait.

I want it easy. I want my life to be easy. happy. joy-filled and that means in my feeble mind, life should go my way.
But what happens when the run gets hard and you feel like throwing your hands up in the air and saying I am done?

Cry out to God. His help is above all else.

He is faithful always.I have days (namely at the end of the month ;) that I spend time in a pool of self-pity mixed with guilt for being in that pool because my pain pails in comparison to those around the world. But that guilt isn't from God, comparisons are the death of us, from the enemy. And we have bad days - hope I can get an amen?! I have bad days.

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